Welcome to St Mary's choir blog

The church has both an adult and junior choir. We are affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music(RSCM). The junior choir are provided with tuition to enable them to gain their RSCM medals. The RSCM Singing Awards celebrate singers’ achievements and progress, through formal examinations at three levels; Bronze, Silver and Gold ( Bronze award is roughly equivalent to ABRSM grade 4. Similarly Silver roughly equates to grade 6 and Gold to grade 8).

The senior choir is a four part harmony choir with its main responsibility to sing at the 10am Sunday service, including an anthem.

Our choirs do not require any fees to belong to them or for any training. New members to both the senior and junior choir are always welcome whatever their standard. If you are interested in joining us please contact our Director of Music (Joanna) via the  Contact Us page.

Sunday, 13 October 2019

Sunday 13th October 2019 Trinity 17

Let Thy Merciful Ears, O Lord      (Thomas?) Mudd   b c 1560

The words to this anthem are the Collect from the 10th Sunday after Trinity.

Mudd whose first name was possibly Thomas was born 1559 or 1560, and was probably born in London. His father served as organist and Vicar Choral at St Paul's. Aged 17, he matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.  He was not allowed his degree because of his Catholic sympathies.  He achieved his BA from Peterhouse in 1581 and MA from Pembroke College (1584).

In 1598 he was thought to be one of England's 16 excellent musicians. Unfortunately, many compositions of this era are attributed to Mudd or Mr Mudd and so it is difficult to know which piece can be apportioned to the correct Mudd! There were a number of Mudds composing about this time.


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